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22/05/2006
http://www.legnostorto.it/legnostorto/statiche/articolo_22_5_2006_10007.aspx

In its latest monitoring report on Romania and Bulgaria, the European Commission did not, as had long been expected, confirm that the European Union's next 2 members would join on 1 January 2007;
instead, it gave the two countries a few more months to shape up before a final verdict is reached.
In practice, the 16 May Report is a "yes" with only minor qualifications.

Few observers now doubt that the two countries will indeed be invited, probably in October, to join the EU next January, unless they fail abysmally in dealing with the tasks (6 for Bulgaria, 4 for Romania) the commission put on their to-do list.

At first glance, this looks very much like the EU's classic approach to tough questions, which is to fudge.

But in this case, the commission was right to fudge-it had hardly any other option. Consider the unappealing choices before the decision makers in Brussels:
give the go-ahead for a 2007 entry to both countries, ADMIT Romania and delay Bulgaria, or delay BOTH countries.

The first option (...)
The second option- giving Romania the green light and delaying Bulgaria- would have run up against the EU's own procedures.

At the time the accession treaties were drafted, Romania was considered the MORE problematic of the two, and the safeguard clause the union inserted into the country's accession treaty (giving the EU the right to delay accession by one year) could be activated by a simple majority of EU member states.

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